Month: October 2013

Congress Infinity is here! Congress Infinity, the sequel to our groundbreaking House and Senate election sim, features the latest game engine, improved game play, new GUI elements, and will include historical campaigns from 1990 – 2014 (House and Senate), a full Campaign Editor (to modify campaigns or create your own), and more!

You can now order the game and receive the latest test release immediately, and then the full release once it is released.

Congress Infinity is available for Windows and Mac (OS X 10.8 and above).

President Forever 2016 v. 1.5.5 has been released! It adds a new Debate Results GUI, changes the debate mechanics, turns Gov. Brian Schweitzer on by default, adds Sen. Cory Booker to the endorsers, fixes a couple bugs, and more.

Want to shape the future of President Forever 2016? The Steering Council is coming! More info here.

President Forever 2016 v. 1.5.4 has been released! It adds a new Endorsers GUI, a new Primary Results GUI, many new endorsers for 2016, a new candidate Ben Carson (second in the Presidential poll at the Values Voter Summit), adds several surrogates, fixes several bugs including a load game bug, and more.

Want to shape the future of President Forever 2016? The Steering Council is coming! More info here.

President Forever 2016 v. 1.5.3 has been released! It adds a new Endorsers GUI, many new endorsers for 2016, a new candidate Ben Carson (second in the Presidential poll at the Values Voter Summit), adds several surrogates, fixes several bugs, and more.

Want to shape the future of President Forever 2016? The Steering Council is coming, more info here.

President Forever 2016 v. 1.5.2 has been released! It adds a new Endorsers GUI, many new endorsers for 2016, a new candidate Ben Carson (second in the Presidential poll at the Values Voter Summit), adds several surrogates, fixes several bugs, and more.

I’m currently working on a new Endorsers Screen, to be included in the next release, probably on Monday.

If anyone has suggestions for Democratic-leaning endorsers, feel free to post ideas in the comments. Currently, it’s GOP heavy.

Here is a before-and-after:

Endorsers will continue to be expanded after the next release. They’ll become more nuanced (instead of only caring about one issue or all or them), in particular. You’ll also be able to sort and view by tags (‘Senator’, ‘Governor’, and so on).

The Steering Council decides which significant feature will be added to P4E16, on a monthly basis, from a selection of several possibilities. The possibilities are generated in response to Steering Council feedback before the vote, and also ideas from 270soft.

Each member of the Steering Council has a vote on which significant feature should be worked on next (as well as the ability to discuss and influence other Steering Council members on which feature should be worked on next).

The feature with the most votes will then be started and (hopefully) completed that month. This will occur each month until the election in 2016.

There are a total of 150 spots on the Steering Council, maximum. To secure a spot, support the creation of President Forever 2016, and vote on which feature will be implemented next on President Forever 2016 until the election in 2016, you can sign up here. Spots on the council are $5.

Questions or feedback welcome – we look forward to continuing to expand P4E16!